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Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

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Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
  2. Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
  3. In order to evoke an emotional response from the reader, you need to carefully consider the words you use.
  4. Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar is essential to help your reader understand your writing.

Common misconception

That you always have to plan before a piece of creative writing.

While a plan is very useful, and should be used in most cases, sometimes free writing can be a way of unleashing creativity that can then be revised.

Keywords

  • Creativity - The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.

  • Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind..

  • Rewrite - The process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.

  • Ambitious - It needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful.

  • Edit - The process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.

You could ask the students to peer-assess their edited version once they have edited their own to show them that it's often much easier to identify errors in other people's work.
Teacher tip

Equipment

Access to dictionaries is beneficial for this lesson - either physical copies or online.

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
What do you need at the start of every sentence?
a full-stop
Correct answer: a capital letter
a lower-case letter
Q2.
Which piece of punctuation belongs at the end of a sentence?
Correct answer: a full-stop
a comma
a semicolon
Q3.
Where does the apostrophe need to go in this sentence: 'Marys fingers stretched towards the branches.'?
'Marys' fingers stretched towards the branches.'
Correct answer: 'Mary's fingers stretched towards the branches.'
you don't need an apostrophe
Q4.
Which of the following words is a synonym for 'bad'?
captivating
Correct answer: dreadful
cascading
delightful
Q5.
If something is ambitious then it is .
Correct answer: hard to achieve
easily achieved
not wanted by anyone
Q6.
Where does the semicolon need to go in this sentence: 'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'?
'The bees hummed; and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'
Correct answer: 'The bees hummed and buzzed; the birds swooped and twittered.'
'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped; and twittered.'

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6 Questions

Q1.
Free writing means .
Correct answer: to simply write without worrying about clarity or accuracy
to create an indepth plan before you begin writing
to revise and edit a piece of writing
Q2.
Creativity means .
to reproduce someone else's work
Correct answer: to produce or use original and unusual ideas
to produce ideas that have been seen before
Q3.
Revising a piece of writing is where you .
plan out how you're going to meet the success criteria
Correct answer: look back over your work to improve it
write down all your ideas about an image without worrying about clarity
Q4.
Which out of the following words is the most ambitious?
good
nice
Correct answer: dazzling
Q5.
Where should the comma(s) go in this sentence: 'The flowers which had just started to bloom smelled divine.'?
'The flowers, which had, just started to bloom smelled divine.'
'The flowers, which had just started to bloom smelled, divine.'
Correct answer: 'The flowers, which had just started to bloom, smelled divine.'
Q6.
Which word is the correct homophone for this sentence: 'Mary stared at the flowers and gorgeous hues.'
there
Correct answer: their
they're